[Pkg-samba-maint] Team maintenance for lbd/tdb/tevent/talloc?

[Mathieu Parent]

2013/5/14 Christian PERRIER <bubulle at debian.org>:
>> > Jelmer, I hope you don't mind this. You are listed as the maintainer of tevent
>> > (not the pkg-samba team). Would it be OK with you to move these packages to
>> > the team:
>> I do mind. Why the urgency? Why not bring up team maintainership *before*
>> making this change? It would have been easy to get an ACK out of me.
>>
>> These packages are not team maintained at the moment.
>
> Hello Jelmer,
>
> I should have probably sent this a bit earlier but, indeed, isn't that
> the right moment to make them team-maintained and complete their move
> to git?
>
[...]
> Having the four build dependency packages also in unstable thus becomes
> important. That's the reason that led me today to check where we are
> wrt VCS status (see our brief IRC discussion).
>
> - ldb: the git repo is converted from bzr but is missing last upload
> to experimental and doesn't have the upstream source. In short it is
> no gbp-compliant (not that this is an absolute requirement but it
> helps in having common packaging methods)
>
> - tdb : the git repo is currently empty. You mentioned me on IRC that
> you have a private copy that is the conversion from bzr. If so, this
> copy also has only the debian/ directory, if I'm correct. Also missing
> last experimental upload
>
> - talloc: the git repo is currently empty. The bzr repo has upstream
> source and debian/
>
> - tevent : as far as I see, there is no git repo yet
[...]

CTDB contains a copy of talloc, tdb and tevent. I will replace them by
a build-dep once the packages are ready. (this will reduce code
duplication, and ease security fixes).

CTDB also contains libreplace, libsocket_wrapper, and libutil, which
are also in samba. How should we handle those?

[ctdb-libs]: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-samba/ctdb.git;a=tree;f=lib

Regards
--
Mathieu